Urn with cremains found in Baileys Harbor

An urn with the cremains of a U.S. Navy veteran was found on a pier in Baileys Harbor earlier this month.

According to a Door County Sheriff’s Department incident report, the urn was reported anonymously April 5. The caller reported seeing the urn April 2. When the officer arrived on the scene he found the urn, decorated with a flag motif, sans lid sitting on the southernmost pier at the Baileys Harbor Town Marina.

Inside the urn, the officer found what looked like cremains, and on the underside of container was the name “Myron Junion.”

An online obituary for Junion, a U.S. Navy veteran and Milwaukee resident, states he died March 31, 2009, at the age of 76.

Door County Sheriff’s Investigative Sgt. Connie Schuster used the obituary to make contact with the funeral home about Junion’s remains. In turn, the funeral home got in touch with Junion’s daughter Patricia D’Acquisto.

According to Schuster, D’Acquisto told the investigator her father enjoyed areas with water, but the family has no real ties to Door County. At one point D'Acquisto did have a timeshare in the county.

The woman came to Door County to pick up the urn on April 7, the report states.

Junion's family has no idea how his remains ended up so far from home, Schuster said.

“With something like this, I always hold out the hope that there will be some sort of plausible explanation why this occurred,” she said.